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The fathers : or, The good-natur'd man. A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane

Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

1778

Fielding is identified as the author in 'The advertisement', (p.ii). Printed from the author's manuscript which had been lost. Cf. Pref.

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Some papers proper to be read before the R---l Society : concerning the terrestrial chrysipus, golden-foot or guinea, an insect or vegetable, resembling the polypus...[etc]

Fielding, Henry (1707-1754); Trembley, Abraham (1710-1784)

1743

Attributed to Henry Fielding in NUC pre-1956. A satire on Abraham Trembly's Observations and experiments upon the fresh-water polypus, published in the Royal Society's Some Papers, 1743.

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Tom Thumb : a tragedy, as it is acted at the theatre in the Hay-market

Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

1730

Signatures: A(±A1), B-C⁴. In this version, Act II has 12 scenes. Pages 1-7 are from the same setting as the first edition, corrected. A reissue of sheets, with cancel t.p.

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The tragedy of tragedies; or, The life and death of Tom Thumb the Great. As it is acted at the theatre in the Hay-Market

Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

1731

With engraved frontispiece by Gerard Van der Gucht after a drawing by Hogarth.

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The author's farce; and The pleasures of the town

Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

1730

Signatures: A⁴, B-E⁶. Head and tail pieces. Cf. Cross, W.L. The history of Henry Fielding. New Haven, 1918, v. 3, p. 291.

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The author's farce, and The pleasures of the town : as acted at the Theatre in the Hay-Market

Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

1730

First edition. Scriblerus Secundus is the pseudonym under which Fielding published this work. Cf. Cushing, W. Initials and pseudonyms, ser. 1, v. 1, p. 263.

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The charge to the jury : or, The sum of the evidence, on the trial of A. B. C. D. and E. F., all M. D. for the death of one Robert at Orfud, at the special commission of Oyer and Terminer held at Justice-College, in W----ck-Lane, before Sir Asculapius Dosem, Dr. Timberhead, and others, their fellows, justices, & c

Fielding, Henry (1707-1754); Walpole, Robert Earl of Orford (1676-1745); Crowe, Thomas; Hulse, Sir Edward (1682-1759); Jurin, James (1684-1750)

1745

"Advertised as by Henry Fielding in Sarah Fielding's Cleopatra and Octavia, 2d ed. 1758."--W. L. Cross, The history of Henry Fielding, v. 3, p. 338. Included (pp.23-5) is a mock "Advertisement" for ...

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The coffee-house politician : or, The justice caught in his own trap; a comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields

Fielding, Henry (1707-1754); Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

1730

Originally published anonymously the same year under title: Rape upon rape; or, The justice caught in his own trap. Advertisements of books printed for J.Watts, on sig.A4 dated November 27, 1730. ...

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The Covent-Garden tragedy...[etc]

Fielding, Henry (1707-1754); Racine, Jean (1639-1699); Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)

1732

Written by Henry Fielding; cf. Nicoll, A. A hist. of Eng. drama, 1660-1900, 1952: v. 2, p. 325. First edition. Burlesque of The distrest mother and Philips's translation with alterations of Racine...

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The debauchees : or, The Jesuit caught. A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By His Majesty's servants

Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

1746

First published 1732 as The old debauchees.

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